The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04

inherent places. each cut being deep
enough to be painful, but none of them
very serious. The gush of blood soon
turned the man into horrible looking
object, and several times he would
have tainted had they not had water at
hand to throw over him. He had
screamed so loud and long that his
voice was now entirely gone, and the
only sound he could utter was a groan.
He had long seemed Unconscious of my
presence, and was glad of this. / do
not think he was in his full senses after
the burning. After the warrior had cut
and slashed with his knife he fell back
TO give place to another. This second
one meant to do finer work. He
meant, as first move, TO cut the vic
TINS tongue out, but as he reached for
it with his left hand Sewell snapped at
him like dog, got the black hand
firmly between his jaws, and then there
was grand uproar. Every body en-
joyed the fix the Indian was in, and
whenever he motioned IS if he meant
to use his knife they shouted to him to
give the victim f:t.r play. Sewell held
to him for fully five minutes, decorating
the hand like a bull dog; and then
three or four warriors seized him and
made him let go. The bitten warrior
relinquished the knife to another, and
during the next quarter of an hour
Sewell suffered the loss of his nose,
ears, fingers and lips. He shrieked out
in agony when his nose was sliced off,
but after that he never even groaned,
and | consoled myself with the hope
that he was dead. The Indians finally
became satisfied that they could get no
more '.fun" out of him, and he was
scalped, and the faggots at his feet
were lighted to consume the body.
My time had come. There was q
grand yell from every warrior as the
two guards led me to the stake. How
did feel? Well, was recklessly des-
perate. | hated to 90 without having
revenge on some of them. and. rs
there was no other way, gave them a
tongue flashing. called them women
and towards; | cited fictitious eases.
when one hunter had licked six of
them; L dared and defied them to do
their worst. had them worked up
until they fairly screamed for my
blood, and reasoned that the torture
would not last long. l was stripped
of every vestige of clothing, bound
hand and foot to the stake, and, as in
the engineers case, two warriors made
ready to shoot powder into me. They
were loading their guns when, out
from the heavy growth of cOttonwoOds
behind the camp, came a line of forty
men on a run, and just in the rear of
them seventy-fve army troopers.
saw the men before any one else in
camp. Indeed. they were not a pistol
shot away when the alarm was given.
1t was the quickest and bloodiest fight
on record. Six of the dismounted men
pushed straight for me, knowing | was
likely to be killed by some savage, and
| was cut loose and revolver was
given to me before the fight was hardly
on. In ten minutes not living buck
was left in camp. We killed twenty
two and the rest broke out of reach.
Seven or eight old men, nine or ten
young fellows, and six squaws were
likewise killed. We captured ninety
two ponies, a great lot of powder and
lead, several hundred dollars worth of
robes, and dealt the tribe a blow it
never recovered from. What we could
not carry away we burned, and not an
article they could make useful was
left.-N Y Sun.